Rob Zombie, shown here performing at the Louder Than Life Music Festival at Champions Park on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, in Louisville, Ky., has plenty of Halloween-worthy songs. See what made our list. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

It’s almost here — the official weekend of Halloween parties. Whether you’re in need of a soundtrack for your monster mash bash or just something festive to play before the radio turns into 24/7 Christmas songs, we’ve got you covered.

The entertainment staff from the Southern California News Group pulled together some of their lesser-known favorites to get you in a spooky mood with werewolves, mummies, vampires and more, without your standard “Thriller” and “Werewolves of London” options.

1. “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” Bauhaus

The bats have left the bell towerThe victims have been bledRed velvet lines the black boxBela Lugosi’s dead

I got up in front of everyone to give my little speechThen my teeth turned into fangs and my nails into clawsAnd I nearly dropped the Torah when my hands turned into pawsI growled and I roared and my rabbi did as wellIt was a rocking werewolf zoo at Temple Beth-Emmanuel

3. “Wolf Like Me,” TV on the Radio

We could jet in a stolen carBut I bet we wouldn’t get too farBefore the transformation takesAnd blood lust tanks and crave gets slaked

4. “Egyptian Shumba,” The Tammys

I’m gonna make that dream come real I’m gonna dance the way I feel Way down in Egyptland, the mummys took our hand

5. “Use Me for Your Eggs,” The Growlers

Legs still grab, arms are wrapped They’re pulling to the sky or falling to your lap I’d like to see them hold me in a trap The most gorgeous web I know I gotta stare

6. “A Nightmare on My Street,” DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Fred got mad and his head started steamin’But I thought what the hell, I’m only dreamin’I said, “Please leave Fred, so I can get some sleep;or gimme a call, and maybe we’ll hang out next week.”

7. “Somebody’s Watching Me,” Rockwell

Fun fact: Michael Jackson sings the hook in the chorus.

When I’m in the showerI’m afraid to wash my hair‘Cause I might open my eyesAnd find someone standing there

8. “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” The Cramps

I had a teen-land mindI had to blow my topAnd under teen full moon No one could make me stop

9. “Shivers ,” Dio

Rats and bats and spidersAnd little things that crawlNever make me trembleI’m bothered not at all

10. “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” (Explicit), Geto Boys

This year Halloween fell on a weekendMe and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatingRobbing little kids for bags

The former singer of the English Beat and General Public wrote and recorded two songs for “Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated” for the ska-zombie band Rude Boy and the Ska-Tastics and the rockers The Hex Girls.

13. “Everyday Is Halloween,” Ministry

Well I live with snakes and lizardsAnd other things that go bump in the night‘Cause to me everyday is HalloweenI have given up hiding and started to fightI have started to fight

14. “Evil Eye,” Franz Ferdinand

Uh, some people get a freak out of meSome people can see that I can seeSome people want to see what I seeSome people put an evil eye on me

15. “The Mummy,” Benji Hughes

The committee, they asked me to be the one to pick the band to play the promI said I wanted FrankensteinThey said that Frankenstein was not a bandCould you get Dracula?Whatever you do, don’t get the mummy

16. “Halloween,” Kirsty MacColl

The spirits of the past
The costumes and the masks
To me they don’t disguise
The presence in your eyes
They turn their heads to see

17. “Walking With A Ghost,” Tegan and Sara

I was walking with a ghost,And I said please, please don’t insistI was walking with a ghost,And I said please, please don’t insist.

18. “Heads Will Roll,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Off with your headDance ’til you’re deadHeads will rollHeads will rollHeads will rollOn the floor

19. “Walk Like a Zombie,” Horrorpops

You walk like a zombieYou talk like a zombieIt’s not in your headYou’re a living dead

20. “Dragula,” Rob Zombie

Dig through the ditches,And burn through the witchesI slam in the back of myDragula

21. “Halloween,” The Misfits

22. “Mr. Crowley,” Ozzy Osbourne

Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?Oh, Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead?Your life style to me seemed so tragicWith the thrill of it allYou fooled all the people with magicYeah, you waited on Satan’s call

23. “Feed My Frankenstein,” Alice Cooper

Well, I ain’t evil, I’m just good lookin’Start a little fire, and baby start cookin’I’m a hungry manBut I don’t want pizza

24. “This is Halloween,” Marilyn Manson

I am the one hiding under your bedTeeth ground sharp and eyes glowingI am the one hiding under your stairsFingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

25. “It’s Halloween” — The Shaggs

Oh, there are witches, goblins, vampires, devils, Frankensteins and zombies
And there are tramps, Cinderellas, pirates, angels and gypsies
So let’s have lots of fun and give many cheers
For Halloween comes but once a year

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